It has been pretty much a new start to everything since my new academic year at school started. I haven’t had much time to do anything much, because there’s a whole bunch of research that I have to do for my final major project at school before I graduate with an Honours in Communication Design, not as easy as I thought it was going to be at all.
I must say the whole Grid Girl competition has equally taken up a lot of my time and finally it’ll all be over this month! it’s been an amazing experience, meeting new people, makin new friends, travelling to Turkey, filming and everything. Definitely something I won’t forget.
That aside I’m looking forward to Shir coming back on the 19th and our mini trip with Grandpa and Mum to Cebu to see my nephew once again and how the restaurant is all coming into place very nicely.
I have also started to realise, I know it’s a bit too late though who my true friends really are. Maybe it also comes with age and maturity, but I now know how I want to live my life and it’s certainly how a friendship should always be mutual. NEVER and I repeat, NEVER one-sided.
I’m off now gonna hang some new purchases up in my wardrobe. soooo toodles!
Hi everyone! I’m back after a long hiatus, so much has happened in the past couple of months ever since my last update.
Firstly, my 21st birthday in May this year (pictures are both on my face book and my Photo Journal). I was so happy to have my birthday stretch a period of about month, more specifically, the whole month of May almost for the first time. My first birthday surprise came when my sister told me she was offerring to pay for my round trip ticket to Melbourne on Emirates! this was certainly something I was looking forward to having not been there to see her in years!
During my stay in Melbourne, another surprise cae in the form of a phone call when I’d received one from Media Corp telling me that I’ve made it to the top 21 of the Singtel Grid Girls 2009, representing Singapore at the Formula One Grand Prix here in September, and also that shortly after I come back, I’ll be making an all expense paid trip to Istanbul in Turkey with 2 other girls, for the formula one, and to film the first episode of Singtel Grid Girls on Tour 2009! I cannot imagine a heap of surprises in a single month! What was even better was that my graduation showcase of my works for my Diploma Year was to have its opening on the same day as my birthday!
So there I went on my merry way and came back a couple of days just before my birthday celebrations which were to fall on the day after my birthday so my dad and a couple of other friends could make it, to be surprised yet again, by a living room at home filled with decorations and prep stuffs just for the party! certainly a priceless surprise birthday month for me this year, with a truck load of thanks to my family, cousins and my friends for all your help and presents and most importantly your presence. There couldn’t have been a better way to start my 21st. =)
The trips this year were great, was definitely an experience to be exposed to different cultures, different people, and most importantly taught me to keep an opne mind about travelling. Definitely well worth it! to experiencing different cultures and different people, and mot importantly, about keeping an open mind, everywhere I go.
With all that said, I just got back from Phuket on a short getaway with Jeeves (pictures are also on my photo journal). Couldn’t have asked for more, with all my favourite things in a single trip. The beach, the water, the food, the shopping, the cocktails, the massages, and everything else in between to make a perfect trip.
I’m off to Bintan in this weekend with the Grid Girls to film a special prelude episode. Sounds like fun eh! great way to end the holiday just before school starts next week.
I’ll leave you with an ad Mum and me did for Hallmark, it’s called “Love Your Life” and it’s still on now. Should come in between shows, so look out for it!
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I was just browsing through a couple of blogs the last couple of days, and the realised how I’ve got so many things on my mind. The start of this year, started off a challenging one, with me having to decide on which major I want to settle down with till I graduate with my Bachelor at least.
For me, it was a choice between Advertising Communication and Imaging Communication, which was a new course introduced only just this year. It wasn’t any easy choice for me, depsite the judgin panel deciding I go into the latter. Imaging and Communication meant a strong background in illustration and basically several other methods of rendering and drawing, which I knew for a fact was my weakest when it came to design, as I’m more a conceptualiser. I prayed about it, sought advice from several significant individuals and then decided I go with Imaging and Communication, where I later discovered illustration wasn’t the onyl medium for projects, there was a range which I was willing to learn more about, in fact. Now that I’m in the course, I have no regrets at all, I believe God has given me the chance to excel in my work for at least the next couple of years.
I went to see a play the other day, by one of my friends from New Face, Becky. It was called NINE and it was her graduating musical, which I’d promised to watch. Went with my friend, where we ended up not getting our complimentary tickets because they were full house. I went the next day instead on my own, for the first time and sat through whole 2 hours of a stellar musical with a very talented cast from Lasalle’s musical theatre. I had not regrets with that one.
On a lighter note, I don’t know why I’ve been eating so much lately. Come to think of it, I’m developing a tummy which I’ve never had before and I’m figuring how my stomach’s shouting out to me to get my ass onto the track for a couple of rounds! my lazy lifestyle is going to get me no where in the keeping fit department. Ooo, that aside, I’ve just been so obsessed with matching my clothes recently and have sort of discovered my style, just looking at my wardrobe on a daily basis. Weird discoveries I have sometimes. =X
Exactly what I need and got after a hard couple of days at work at the Audi roadshow at Far East Square, Clarke Quay, Marina Bay Golf Club, and the latest one, being UOB Plaza, which I have to say was the best of them all. Best in terms of the crowd, and the little things I’d learnt along the way, everyday is a learning journey, indeed. The people I meet, the various locations I go to and the different waether around me, are all part of a learning curve. I’ve got my last day working at the Audi Roadshow on the 6th at the Marriot, which I hope would be a whole lot more busier considering the location of the place.
That aside, I relieved my sore feet and body aches with a nice cool foot reflexology with my babe Sarah, for pretty cheap, considering how we surveyed various parlours before we settled on one. =) Haha! picky we are aren’t we. Anywhoo, we had an awesome relaxing day out, with nice lava cake, with chocolate oozing out after a relaxing foot massage, followed by some chicken rice after for din. Here are the lovely pictures I can’t get enough of. The place is Mei-Ya foot massage at Roxy Square, in case you were wondering. ;P they do it at a really reasonable price, for 40 minutes, where you have an option of extending it, etc.
Sarah & myself prepping for the massage.
Satisfied Customer Numero Uno
Satisfied Customer NUmber 2! ahah
At Starbucks for some lovely cake and coffee. <3
Sarah looking tres fabulous!
and that basically sums up the awesome therapeutic day out.
I don’t know if it’s particularly this time of the month when i get really emo, or some things that have been happening that cause me to think and reminisce about stuff. I’ve just recently been thinking alot more about J. Thoughts of happy times and pictures on facebook that we used to have back then just make me really wonder about certain things, where I get really sad. Maybe it’s cause I’m not occupied or I’m on holiday now so I have less things on my mind, but I doubt it, I always tell myself that but it just means otherwise.
I really, really miss him and the times we had together. Even though we’re still talking and all, it’s just really different cause I want something which I know I can never have, and it sucks to know as well, so I’d rather not. I do realise the mistakes I’ve made and all that, but as they say, what’s done has been done and it’ll only make things better if i stop for a while, take some time off and realise how I’ve gone wrong to change all that and start a new, maybe with someone new, or the same.
I feel crap whenever I hear about how couples have their fun and doesn’t help either that when i log on to my facebook I see a whole lot more pictures of varying couples with their varied fun times! and their relationship statuses. Maybe things were really meant to be the way they were, to show me how I just can’t carry on being that sort of a soul mate, or maybe it was all lessons that were meant to be learnt? whatever the case I really don’t know, but it hurts more and more everyday, the more we interact. nothing progresses.
I wish things were like this, as how it was back when we started.
I’m currently really into this new song by Kanye West that I’ve been having on repeat for the past couple of days (hopefully I don’t get sick of it), and at the same time thinking of a new layout for my portfolio, with the re-submission I have been asked to do by the first week of December. It’s crazy I knwo ut anything so that I’ll get into my desired course. To be honest, to date, I’ve not seen any other Design college with such strict assesment procedures as mine. Okay I know I’m not too sure about NAFA, but I know for a fact that RDI isn’t as stringent about their procedures.
I’m glad to say that I’ve been pretty much driving around alot recently, considering how at first I felt so scared to take the car out with no confidence at all, even if it was for a short distance round the corner or to someone’s place just a turn away from mine. I can look forward now to saving alot more on pulic transport and taking the car out alot more often, since Sarah is back as well, I can avoid her picking me up and burdening her to send me home anymore, with the help of the Subaru! haha. I have to be paying for petrol pretty soon as well, with all that being said.
I don’t believe how Christmas is so near and I’m not motivated at all to be going out and shopping for presents or haven’t a clue at all about where to start. I miss my siblings now, especially since it’s that time of the year where they would come down and we would all have some lovely Christmas family time spent together. I really do, but I guess it won’t be happening this year and we might have to make a trip up to Cebu, which I’m totally looking forward to as well, n hopes that Shir might meet us there! though I doubt.
I have something else on my mind right now as well, awaiting the arrival of my most wanted item on my list of favourite things, yes it’s my rhinestoned Victoria’s Secret bag which I’ve paid a bomb for and can’t be taking from Sarah depsite the offer. haha!
That aside, I can’t wait till all my friends come down from everywhere around the world, literally to congregate for a partay! and some dinners in between. I’ve got heaps of picture to share as to what I’ve been kept busy with the past couple of weekends as well. Here goes:
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Tania & Kenny’s Fantabulous Wedding Dinner at the Ritz.
Beautiful white roses line the aisle and tables.
Some lovely chocolates to take home.
Pouring the champagne to what was a toast later on.
The Red Bull peeps. =)
The lovely 10-course Dinner.
With Nora.
Tania and her Daddy with a dance before the hand over. Sweet.
I’ve started on my 2,000 word essay on Drag Queens and really quite impressed with the search results I got on line in comparison to the library which didn’t have a single book on Drags, at all except for fiction books which are really to me, a waste of time.
I’ve got a truck load of work ahead of me to be completed, that I’m just really not thinking about at all, considering the holidays that are approaching over the weekend. Sometimes I wonder how moods are so important when it comes to school work which really shouldn’t be the case at all.
Just spent a couple hours of my time that night thinking about how much I miss having the family here with me in Singapore an my weekends that used to be spent partying with Patti, and the weirdest encounters we have, be it when i get high or with varying, ahem men, desperate for attention. ha ha! I don’t know if you’re reading this love, and wishing you were back here partying! but I still certainly miss those times. As for the family, I hope we all come together over Christmas now considering how everybody has their own plans and all. If that’s going to be the case than I don’t know how long It’ll be till I see everybody again.
I can’t wait for my Hooters dinner plans tomorrow, to see what it really is like, though I’ve only seen it from the outside with sleazy ass chics that everyone knows about, but more than that, the food that I’ve heard a lot about. Mexican BBQ spicy buffalo wings, here I come!
The past few weeks have been spent with just me, a home and the laptop in front of me, for well obvious reasons that my school work’s been piling up and project submissions await me. All that work has gotten my laptop so used to saving big files that it doesn’t take as long as it usually would anymore.
The past couple of months for me has been a whirlwind of emotions indeed. There’s so much that has been going on, whether good or bad. I’ve also been kept busy with numerous shoots, whether photo ones or filming for the upcoming game show on channel 5 which airs in January 09, watch out for it. or well don’t cause i got eliminated on the forst episode, hilarious it was.
That aside, I haven’t been partying that much anymore since a couple of my friends have left the country, Saturday nights have just been ever so boring since and I don’t even have the mood anymore for a good party or a random night out, all I want to do now is to go for a couple of drinks or a chill out bar to be specific. Clubbing just doesn’t interest me anymore. That’s sad but I guess it’s also cause I’ve reached an age where my life is not all about a party anymore as well. Everything else has just been very different as well now, I feel like I’ve just gotten a huge pay cheque which I’m so afraid to spend. There’s so much to buy but I’m so compelled to saving all of it each time I’m tempted to take that dollar note out of my purse.
I’ve recently as well, contrary to all that, fallen madly in love with the IPOD touch, that I want so bad, and have to save for, in case there’s more to life than just gadgets. haha.
I miss all my friends, I do and I miss being the life of the party really, but I don’t know who or what changed me. I guess, for now I anticipate December, for the friends that’ll be back or the trip or getaway I might plan to somewhere, at least jsut out of the country if at all. =)
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and their relationship statuses. Maybe things were really meant to be the way they were, to show me how I just can’t carry on being that sort of a soul mate, or maybe it was all lessons that were meant to be learnt? whatever the case I really don’t know, but it hurts more and more everyday, the more we interact. nothing progresses.
